Doug Foster
Measure Twice, Cut Once
I stumbled onto a research paper I wrote with Mark Duda in 2006/2007 for NeighborWorks America. It was striking how much our current economic situation and housing market has in common as it did in the mid 2000s.
I'll offer some thoughts about our affordability study and how it is relevant today.
It’s 2018, a new year. I have a lot of possible resolutions for the Village. One big one is to have the Village take over maintenance of the sidewalks. It is crazy that every homeowner needs to pay for their sidewalks. Other communities have done this, and it works well, and ends up being quite …
The original version was published in Nyack News and Views on Dec 22, 2017. In the last eight years, we have been able to achieve so much, and perhaps no part of Nyack has benefited more than our waterfront. Reconnecting Nyack with the Hudson River has been a passion of mine, and we are well …
In 2011, the Village Board began an ambitious road rebuilding program. We are five years into the effort and are nearing the end of the rebuild stage, and will settle into maintaining a road system in good condition. When I came into office in 2010, the Village was in trouble financially, and its roads were …
Originally posted in Nyack News and Views The Village Board has on the agenda to discuss raising parking fees, and there may be no hotter topic they could pick. There is a flurry of emails going out alerting the public of the upcoming event. The Chamber of Commerce has sent out an email to their …
This paper develops a housing market typology based on affordability into which markets can be sorted, and to which homeownership policy approaches can be matched.
